Station and street indicator.



C. B. BELL.

STATION AND STREET INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 24, \915. 1,179,796, Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24. 1915.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916,

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CLINTON IB. BELL, or SPENCER, WEST VIRGINIA.

STATION AND STREET INDICATOR.

Application filed September 24, 1915.

To all whom it may concern: v

Beit known that I, CLINTON B. BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spencer, in the county of Roane and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Station and Street Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in street and station indicators for railway passenger cars, the object of the invention being to provide an improved machine of this character .which may be readily operated by pulling a cord and' caused to dislay a name of the next street or station to e reached by the car, for the information of the passengers. j

The invention consists in the construe tion, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :-F igure 1 is a front elevation of a street and station indicator constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View of the same on the plane indicated by the line a-a of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an elevation showing the opposite sideof the machine from that indicated in Fig. 2. j i j The -casing 1 may be of the form here shown or of any other suitable form and is provided at the front with a substantially semi-circular portion 2 in which is an opening 3 for displaying the names of the streets or stations successively and openings 4 for displaying the distance in miles between stations or from point to point along the road. At the rear of the casing are hooks 5 adapted to engage keepers or brackets 6 secured to to the wall of the car in which the indicator is used and forthe purpose of supporting the indicator, and at the lower side of the rear wall or inner end of the indicator is a bumper 7 to bear against the car wall and which is made of rubber or other suitable material.

The opposite side walls of the casing, on the inner side of the same, are substantially V-shaped frames 8 which are provided at their outer ends with bearings 9.

A spacing and displaying roller 11 has centrally arranged journals 12-13 at its ends which are mounted in the bearings 9. The journal 12 extends out through an opening in one side of the casing and is provided with a detent disk 14: which has detent Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916. Serial 1:10; 52,491.

notches 15 in its periphery here shown as 90 apart. A. rectangular stop member 16 is secured on the end of the roller 11 provided with the journal 13 and centrally with reference thereto and has rounded corners 17 which aline radially with the detent notches 15 of the disk let. A stop spring 18 is attached to one of the frames 8 and engages the upper corner of the stop disk 16 and coacts therewith to prevent casual rotation of the disk roller in the required position between streets or stations.

Astrip or band 19 which contains the names of the streets or stations in regular order, and at a suitable distance apart, bears on the front side of the periphery of the roller 11 and is by the said roller displayed through the openings 3l so that the names of the streets or stations and the mileage indications can be read through said openings. This indicating strip 19 is reversel Y wound on rollers 20 which are mounted in bearings 21 on the frame 8 and near the inner end of the casing and each of which rollers is provided at one end with a spur gear 22 which is engaged by a gear 23. Oppositely wound coiled springs 24' are attached to the gears 23 to produce tension on the display or indicating strip 19 and enable the latter to be run in either direction by step by step movement of the roller 11 and so that the said strip will be unwound from one roller 20 and wound on the other as the indicator is operated from station to station as will be understood.

A yoke 25 has a bearing for the journal 12 of the indicating roller 11 and is provided with oppositely extending arms 26 which have spindles 27 on which the fork arms 28 of an operating lever 29 are pivotally mounted so that said operating lever can be arranged either above or below the said journal 12 and the fork 28 of said lever being semi-circular in form and concentric with the journal 12 and detent disk 14. One arm of the yoke has a spring 30 to engage either side of one of the fork arms of the lever and thereby hold the lever in either elevated or depressed position. The yoke is provided at its center with a right angled arm 31. A spring arm 32 is attached to the lower side of one of the frames 8 and is connected by a suitable cord 33 to an eye 34 at the outer end of said arm 31. Hence the yoke and the lever are held in the required 11 and to hold the said i positions. The lever may be operated by a suitable cord 35 attached thereto and is provided With a dog 36 which is pivoted to the fork 28 as at 37 and is adapted to successively engage the detent notches 15, a spring 38 connecting the dog of the fork and holding the dog normally in engaging position. A thumb lever 39 is pivotally connected to the operating lever 29 as at &0 and has an arm a1 which is connected to the dog by a cord or rod 4:2 and by means of which thumb lever the dog may be disengaged from the detent disk When desired. A spring 43 normally holds the thumb lever in the required position. to permit the engagement of the dog with one of the detent notches.

lVhen the car is moving in one direction the lever 29 will be in elevated position as shown. On the return trip of the car the lever'must be swung over and downwardly to a position reverse to that indicated in Fig. 2 so that when ope-rated it will cause the indicating strip to be reversely operated and thereby appropriately display the names of the streets or stations along the road.

While I have herein shown and described a preferred form of my invention I would have it understood that changes may be made in the form, proportion and construction of the several parts Without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope of the appended claims. Having thus described my claim V 1. In a street and station indicator of the class described an indicating strip, winding rollers therefor, an indicating roller engaged by the indicating strip and for moving sai strip by step by step rotation of said roller, means to prevent casual rotation of said roller, a detent. disk revoluble with said rollerv and having spaced detent notches, a yoke mounted on the axle of said roller, an operating lever pivotally mounted on said yoke and adapted to be arranged in either elevated or depressed position and a dog carried by said lever and adapted to successively engage the detent notches when invention, I

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class described an carried by said lever and said lever is operated and thereby rotate said roller by step by step movement.

2. In a street and station indicator of the indicating strip, winding rollers therefor, an indicating roller engaged by the indicating strip and for moving said strip by step by step rotation of said roller, means to prevent casual rotation of said roller, a detent disk revoluble with said roller and having spaced detent notches, a yoke mounted on the axle of said roller, an operating lever pivotally mounted on said yoke and adapted to be arranged in either elevated or depressed position and a dog adapted to successively engage the detent notches when said lever is ope-rated and thereby rotate said roller by step by step movement said lever having a fork at its inner end forming pivotal connections between the same and the yoke and a spring attached to said fork and to said dog to keep the latter in engaged position.

3. In a street and station indicator of the class described an indicating strip, Winding rollers therefor, an indicating roller engaged by the indicating strip and for moving said strip by step by step rotation of said roller, means to prevent casual rotation of said roller, a detent disk revoluble with said roller and having spaced detent notches, a yoke mounted on the axle of said roller, an operating lever pivotally mounted on said yoke and adapted to be arranged in either elevated ordepressed position and a dog carried by said lever and adapted to successively engage the detent notches when said lever is operated and thereby rotate said roller by step by step movement, the said yoke having a right angled arm and a spring connected to said armto impart reverse strokes to said operating lever.

In testimony in presence of two Witnesses.

I CLINTON B. BELL.

Witnesses J. E. BAILEY,

E. M. BELL.

Commissioner of Patents,

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